What Are You Doing Right Now
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
One more hour of ELMAH log monitoring, then I get to sleep.
Why can't you set email alerts with triggers? Save on wasted time watching grass grow.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Monitoring our web server for the next 12 hours and passing some of the time by farming platinum in Everquest.
EverQuest is still around?
There is a name I have not heard in a low time.
@EddieJennings and I talk about it often enough in passing on here. So no excuse for not hearing it.
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@JaredBusch I'm also messing around with the Al'Kabor Project as well.
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@Texkonc Brain too fried to give you a good answer (assuming there's a good answer to give), other than from 00:00 - 06:00 this morning, had I been sleeping, E-mail alerts wouldn't have awoken me.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This discussion seems to have prompted a bit of "you have to do it like this" as if there is only one answer to all IT (which is high availability and on premises) without anyone asking what the needs are. The lack of asking about needs, but the abundance of "there is only one way to do it" makes me think that a lot of people think that IT doesn't involve any decision making.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2002138-hyper-v-virtualization
that one guy literally just used that Boeing needs redundant parts in airplanes as his excuse for why he won't even consider the business needs of his customers!
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I can't believe how often people on SW outright admit, and take pride in, the fact that they don't do the job that they are paid to do and try to scam their customers. It's only once every few weeks, but that it ever happens is just mind blowing. That anyone things it is okay to brag about screwing other people, especially people specifically paying you to protect them, is insane. No wonder people don't trust their IT people, they shouldn't. If that number are willing to brag in public with their name and face on it that they are taking advantage of their customers' naivety, imagine how many do it secretly!
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I can't believe how often people on SW outright admit, and take pride in, the fact that they don't do the job that they are paid to do and try to scam their customers. It's only once every few weeks, but that it ever happens is just mind blowing. That anyone things it is okay to brag about screwing other people, especially people specifically paying you to protect them, is insane. No wonder people don't trust their IT people, they shouldn't. If that number are willing to brag in public with their name and face on it that they are taking advantage of their customers' naivety, imagine how many do it secretly!
Lol yeah.
Planes have two engines... so that means you need two dns servers!
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@Tim_G said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I can't believe how often people on SW outright admit, and take pride in, the fact that they don't do the job that they are paid to do and try to scam their customers. It's only once every few weeks, but that it ever happens is just mind blowing. That anyone things it is okay to brag about screwing other people, especially people specifically paying you to protect them, is insane. No wonder people don't trust their IT people, they shouldn't. If that number are willing to brag in public with their name and face on it that they are taking advantage of their customers' naivety, imagine how many do it secretly!
Lol yeah.
Planes have two engines... so that means you need two dns servers!
And Boeing has made single engine planes, too. Even that bit of his argument wasn't true. Not big commercial passenger planes, but others.
And some passenger planes are single engine. He's ALSO implying that Boeing is the only plane maker to emulate.
The number of things that make no sense so that he can excuse what he does to unsuspecting customers is pretty crazy.
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In all honesty, if you were his customer, his sold you multiple servers and you read that statement... tell me you'd not be considering a call to a lawyer.
Dollars to donuts he's a VAR and gets paid for the sale of the extra gear.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
In all honesty, if you were his customer, his sold you multiple servers and you read that statement... tell me you'd not be considering a call to a lawyer.
Dollars to donuts he's a VAR and gets paid for the sale of the extra gear.
He basically just said that he doesn't care if he's wrong, isn't interested in being corrected, and wants to share his incorrect information anyways to whoever will listen.
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@Tim_G said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
In all honesty, if you were his customer, his sold you multiple servers and you read that statement... tell me you'd not be considering a call to a lawyer.
Dollars to donuts he's a VAR and gets paid for the sale of the extra gear.
He basically just said that he doesn't care if he's wrong, isn't interested in being corrected, and wants to share his incorrect information anyways to whoever will listen.
Yup, that was quite the "I don't want to start an argument" immediately after intentionally starting one. He could have just said he was a crook and left it as an option. But he made it a personal attack to mock anyone that didn't screw people like that. WTF
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Texkonc Brain too fried to give you a good answer (assuming there's a good answer to give), other than from 00:00 - 06:00 this morning, had I been sleeping, E-mail alerts wouldn't have awoken me.
That's why you set critical and warnings to text you and info to email you. Ran it that way for years at previous gig.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This discussion seems to have prompted a bit of "you have to do it like this" as if there is only one answer to all IT (which is high availability and on premises) without anyone asking what the needs are. The lack of asking about needs, but the abundance of "there is only one way to do it" makes me think that a lot of people think that IT doesn't involve any decision making.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2002138-hyper-v-virtualization
that one guy literally just used that Boeing needs redundant parts in airplanes as his excuse for why he won't even consider the business needs of his customers!
Yeah, it was way out of line.
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@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Texkonc Brain too fried to give you a good answer (assuming there's a good answer to give), other than from 00:00 - 06:00 this morning, had I been sleeping, E-mail alerts wouldn't have awoken me.
That's why you set critical and warnings to text you and info to email you. Ran it that way for years at previous gig.
I'll have to look into that. Methinks after this week, ELMAH is going to become part of my sphere of responsibility.
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@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This discussion seems to have prompted a bit of "you have to do it like this" as if there is only one answer to all IT (which is high availability and on premises) without anyone asking what the needs are. The lack of asking about needs, but the abundance of "there is only one way to do it" makes me think that a lot of people think that IT doesn't involve any decision making.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2002138-hyper-v-virtualization
that one guy literally just used that Boeing needs redundant parts in airplanes as his excuse for why he won't even consider the business needs of his customers!
Yeah, it was way out of line.
Turns out that he's local here.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This discussion seems to have prompted a bit of "you have to do it like this" as if there is only one answer to all IT (which is high availability and on premises) without anyone asking what the needs are. The lack of asking about needs, but the abundance of "there is only one way to do it" makes me think that a lot of people think that IT doesn't involve any decision making.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2002138-hyper-v-virtualization
that one guy literally just used that Boeing needs redundant parts in airplanes as his excuse for why he won't even consider the business needs of his customers!
Yeah, it was way out of line.
Turns out that he's local here.
I see, but then it begs the question as to what was the purpose of the comment.
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Reading that thread about Hyper-V now to see what all the fuss is about.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
In all honesty, if you were his customer, his sold you multiple servers and you read that statement... tell me you'd not be considering a call to a lawyer.
Dollars to donuts he's a VAR and gets paid for the sale of the extra gear.
Ya but hes 20 years in IT, so he knows.
http://www.interstructure.net/About-Us.html
Take a trip and visit him.
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@dbeato @scottalanmiller Over the last year (so much growth has happened during year 3 of IT), I've come to question the allure of redundant-and-failover-everything. I think the question (for that particular thread) should be "what do you need," rather than the statement "do this." Does this business actually need a second copy of [whatever it needs] waiting to take over if the first copy is unavailable? How is the previous question answered for different parts of the business: Does everything need such failover ability, or only some aspects of the business?
Where I am, it would suck if our T620 in the local office blew up tomorrow, but we wouldn't go out of business. Our internal operations (customer facing stuff would largely be unaffected) be crippled for a bit until we got new hardware going; however, it wouldn't make sense to have bought two T620s just to have one sitting there waiting for the other to fail, which catastrophic failure like that is pretty unlikely. But Eddie! Load balancing blah blah! I'd have to look at NewRelic, but I don't think our Hyper-V host has ticked above an average CPU usage of 3% ever. We simply don't have enough load to make spending money for extra equipment to balance the load.
I'll stop rambling, but it just seems the scare tactics of "what do you do when everything fails all at once?" or "what do you do when your one single server fails?" are just that, scare tactics. They are questions that should be addressed, but not defacto reasons to have two of everything.
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This jet lag is ridiculous with kids.
Not only almost half a day time difference, but battling the midnight sun is also a challenge.
My daughter is at least starting to fall asleep a little later in the day, but still waking up at 3am.
We are all sleeping at different times it seems. I read it should take about one day per time zone to adjust, so hopefully by the weekend thing will get better sleep wise.
With kids, I think I'd rather deal with the noon moon.
